Juaneno Band of Mission Indians Get Sacred Village Land

ICTMN Staff
7/6/16
For 12,000 years, the Acjachemen Nation lived and thrived on the land that is part of modern-day Southern California. Then the Spanish came...

Land Rights Win: Alaska Native Tribes Win Right to Place Lands Into Trust, Enhance Safety

ICTMN Staff
7/5/16
Alaska Native communities have a bit more control over their land thanks to a July 1 ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C...

Lucky 13: The Susie Islands Return in Full to the Grand Portage People

Konnie LeMay
6/28/16
Ending nearly two centuries of separation, the Grand Portage Ojibwe again have ownership of the 13th island in an archipelago...
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Review: ‘A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York’

Alex Hamer
4/3/16
When I first learned of Cindy Amrhein’s book “ A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York ,” my skepticism was as piqued as my interest...

High Court Orders Belize to Recognize and Protect Maya Traditional Property and Rights

Rick Kearns
5/15/15
On April 19th the Caribbean Court of Justice announced its judgment affirming the 2013 holding of the Court of Appeal of Belize that the Maya indigenous people of southern Belize h...

$1 Billion? No Thanks: First Nation Turns Down Offer for LNG on Ancestral Land

ICTMN Staff
5/13/15
A First Nation in northern British Columbia has said no thank you to a $1 billion ($960 million US) offer from a Malaysian company looking to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) te...

Idle No More: Decolonizing Water, Food and Natural Resources With TEK

Valerie Goodness
1/30/15
Watersheds and Indigenous Peoples know no borders. Canada’s watershed management affects America’s watersheds, and vice versa...

Major Victory: Canadian Supreme Court Hands Tsilhqot’in Aboriginal Title

ICTMN Staff
6/26/14
According to the APTN the Supreme Court of Canada granted a decision today in favor of the First Nations community Tsilhqot’in...

Africa’s Indigenous Fighting a Global Issue – Land Rights

Linda Daniels
6/2/14
The slowdown of land rights recognition has become a global issue, nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa where a new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative has found th...

Video: Dann Sisters' Battle to Save Their Cattle Is Stark Contrast to That of Cliven Bundy

ICTMN Staff
4/19/14
The federal government’s treatment of rancher Cliven Bundy, who has invoked land rights in his objection to paying grazing fees for his cattle, stands in stark contrast to what was...

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